Five banks were closed by state and federal regulators on Friday, Jan. 22. The largest of the failed institutions was Charter Bank, a $1.2 billion bank based in Santa Fe, NM.
What's the cost of a data breach?
The Ponemon Institute is out with its 5th annual "Cost of a Data Breach" study, and in an exclusive interview Dr. Larry Ponemon discusses:
The current cost of a data breach - and how it's risen since 2009;
Data breach trends across industry;
What organizations should do to...
President Obama this past week made strong remarks to spur Congress and populist support toward banking regulatory reform.
But what's likely to happen? And when?
"There might be stronger regulatory reform than people thought six months ago," says Christie Sciacca, formerly with the Federal Deposit Insurance...
"We need government to modernize the laws, adapt them to the cloud and adopt new measures to protect privacy and promote security" Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith says.
"In an interconnected world, an attack on one nation's networks can be an attack on all," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a major foreign policy address on Internet freedom.
Third-party service providers are a staple of banking services in the information era. How can banking institutions get the most from these relationships?
Brian Hurdis, executive vice president of technology services at FIS, discusses:
The biggest information security challenges facing banking institutions in...
Credit reports, social networks and international background checks - these are three of the hottest topics in employment background screening, according to Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a CA-based firm.
In an exclusive interview, Lester Rosen, President and CEO of ESR, discusses:
The top 10 trends in...
I remember Jan. 20, 2009, as a date of historic significance. Not only did the country see the swearing in of the first African American U.S. President, but at the same time as the country's eyes were on Washington, D.C., there was another historic event happening.
You've heard of Stephen Covey's "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?"
Well, information security leaders also must cultivate healthy habits to proactively manage their careers. Following are the 8 essential habits identified by successful security leaders:
Interview with Lydia Parnes, Former Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection
Privacy, data security and consumer protection - three of the top concerns to organizations everywhere. And they are three of the topics nearest and dearest to Lydia Parnes, former director of the Federal Trade Commission's...
Three banks were closed by state and federal regulators on Friday, Jan. 15. These closures raise the year's tally of failed institutions to five: four banks and one credit union.
The Advanced Persistent Threat - what exactly is it, and how are organizations vulnerable?
Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable Network Security, explains the threat and the challenges to mitigating it. In an exclusive interview, Gula discusses:
Why some organizations are especially vulnerable;
Strategies and solutions...
A former bank employee and her husband were arrested in Connecticut on Tuesday and charged with bank fraud and money laundering in a $6.2 million fraud case.
Bank robberies and other crimes against financial institutions have decreased slightly, according to the latest report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
There were 1,212 reported crimes against banking institutions in the third quarter of 2009, according to the FBI's bank crime statistics -- a...
It is time to address the issue of protecting our identity and thanks to the federal government's implementation of PIV smart card credentials; we have a proven technology in place that could be leveraged for a much broader audience.
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